Android App Permissions

The cluster focuses on user control over Android app permissions, debates on fine-grained access, comparisons to iOS, rooting for better management, and concerns about apps abusing broad permissions.

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Sample Comments

yonatan8070 Dec 11, 2023 View on HN

Android applications have as much or as little access as you give them, you don't have to grant every permission an app asks for.

rtkwe Jul 11, 2016 View on HN

If you're on Android it's done properly through app permissions and doesn't encounter this issue.

junon Mar 17, 2024 View on HN

Even with apps, you still do not have the fine grained permissions you'd think you'd get. Have you tried?

y4mi Dec 17, 2015 View on HN

root your phone and install a permission manager. or use cyanogenmod and enable the built-in.

oh_hello Nov 9, 2018 View on HN

On iOS and now newer versions of Android you are able to individually grant and revoke permissions. What information are you expecting them to extract via the app that you can't block?

auiya Feb 22, 2019 View on HN

So you're saying they use the Android app permissions model?

pasbesoin Jun 24, 2011 View on HN

Selective Permissions For Androidhttp://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2684449alsohttp://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=moxie

nsonha Mar 31, 2025 View on HN

Android is so broken, each app query should be explicitly approved by user, instead of by reviewer like this.

jdlyga Oct 18, 2018 View on HN

This is an android thing right? They gotta add more fine grained permissions

Conlectus Feb 11, 2016 View on HN

This is already part of the built-in permissions management in the latest version of android, no?